After two years largely out of sight, Jaguar Jonze returns sounding less like she’s easing back into music and more like she’s tearing through the walls around it. New single ‘Naked’, released via Nettwerk, marks the beginning of a new chapter for the Taiwanese-Australian artist, producer and multidisciplinary creative, arriving ahead of a one-off Great Southern Nights performance at Bootleggers in Newtown this weekend. Tickets HERE.
Written in Los Angeles with Daniel James and produced alongside Aidan Hogg, Matias Gabriel Mora and Cary Joshua Singer, ‘Naked’ pulses with heavy low-end tension and fractured club-pop energy. The track swings between gritty, almost confrontational verses and explosive melodic release, carrying the sense of an artist re-emerging with sharpened clarity rather than cautious reflection.
For Jonze, the song arrives after a two-year hiatus spent focusing on her health, an experience that she has shared with fans on social media.
The accompanying self-directed video, co-created with Oksana Markina and Anton Nosov, extends those themes into something visually striking and physically raw. Shot at an abandoned construction site in Uluwatu, Bali, the clip frames the body itself as both battleground and liberation point, folding rebirth, sensuality and destruction into a cinematic fever dream of movement and concrete dust.
Since emerging in 2019, Jaguar Jonze has steadily built one of the more singular careers in Australian music, operating at the intersection of art-pop, visual art, fashion and activism without ever feeling neatly contained by any of them. Early releases Diamonds & Liquid Gold and ANTIHERO introduced her as a fiercely conceptual songwriter, while debut album BUNNY MODE pushed further into theatrical, high-voltage art-pop territory that caught the attention of international publications including NME, PAPER and The Guardian.
Outside music, Lynch’s work across activism and visual storytelling has become just as central to her public identity. Projects including Spectator Jonze, Dusky Jonze and 2024’s victim impact statement have continually blurred the lines between personal narrative, political commentary and multidisciplinary art practice.
Stream ‘Naked’ HERE.
